Paul Mojzes (born 10 November 1936) is an academic who is professor emeritus of Religious Studies at

Rosemont College , mottoeng = I will lift my eyes up to the hills , established = 1921 , type = Private college , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic (Society of the Holy Child Jesus) , president = J ...

Education and career

Mojzes was born in

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and grew up in

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Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

. Upon graduation from the gymnasium in Novi Sad, he studied at the

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before coming to the United States in 1957. He received his

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from

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in 1959 and doctorate in Eastern European Church History from

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in 1965. As well as teaching, Mojzes was also chair of the Religious Studies and Humanities Department at Rosemont College. He was the co-editor of the ''

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'', and founder and co-editor of ''Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe''. Additionally, he was the interim director of the

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and

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doctoral program and continues to teach at Gratz as an adjunct professor. He was also distinguished visiting professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Richard Stockton College. He is a member of the

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Books

* ''Varieties of Christian-Marxist dialogue'' (Ecumenical Press, 1978). * ''Christian-Marxist dialogue in Eastern Europe'' (Augsburg Fortress, 1981). * ''Religious Liberty in Eastern Europe and the USSR'' (East European Monographs, 1992). * ''Yugoslavian Inferno: Ethnoreligious Warfare in the Balkans'' (Continuum, 1994). * ''Religion and the War in Bosnia'' (Scholars, 1998). * ''Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).

References

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